Frid’s familiar line about his character was: “I don’t play a vampire. I play a man with a secret.”

That seemed to apply in real life, too.

Frid always came off like a fey cross between Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but his culty female fans through the years always argued “He loves women!” or “He’s asexual. He doesn’t believe in having sex!”

And there was the hot guy William knows who once approached Frid as a fan, only to have the actor coo, “Let’s talk about you.”

(Another male I know claims Frid once chased him for sex, but the guy tends to have a vivid imagination, so take it with a grain of vampire dust.)

Anyway, did Frid leave the earth out of sheer excitement over the upcoming Dark Shadows movie he appears in–which looks like it’s been turned into a pumped-up fish-out-of-water comedy–or was he dodging a bullet?

We’ll never know.

We’ll never know a lot of things.

Update: But from the info above, combined with the insider comments gleaned as a result of this blog, we do know: Yep, he was gay!